Importance of Side Projects

Re:Importance of Side Projects by rawsyntax on Sunday May 29, 2011 @09:30PM (#2598116)

I'm the author, will answer any questions / criticisms of the post. Thanks for the upvotes

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Re:Importance of Side Projects by wallflower on Sunday May 29, 2011 @09:58PM (#2598197)

I really liked your succinct definition of what a side project is. What are your thoughts/experiences/opinions on team side projects?

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Re:Importance of Side Projects by rawsyntax on Sunday May 29, 2011 @09:59PM (#2598199)

I find it can be hard to sync up schedules and reliably work on it each week.

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Re:Importance of Side Projects by wallflower on Monday May 30, 2011 @12:22AM (#2598490)

Interesting, the most successful team side project I've ever worked on - we met regularly every week at a coffee shop.

Looking back, that served two purposes - one, nothing beats face to face debugging and arguing over the merits of various UX approaches and two, having that weekly meeting was a hard deadline - that pushed each of us to get their stuff done and committed to the repository before the meeting (even if it was 5 min. prior to the meeting).

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